Today
Biden condemns ICC arrest warrants for Israeli, Hamas leaders
US President Joe Biden called the ICC prosecutor’s decision “outrageous”, adding “there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas”.
- 18 mins ago
- Josef Federman
Yesterday
Foreign Minister another hardliner close to Revolutionary Guard
Hossein Amirabdollahian represented the hardline shift in Iran after the collapse of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers when Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew.
- Jon Gambrell
Australia considers declaring Middle East no-go zones
ASIO and the Federal Police remain concerned about terrorism in Australia amid tensions in the Middle East.
- Andrew Tillett
Iran’s hardline president dies in helicopter crash
Officials have confirmed the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a helicopter crash, state media reported.
- Updated
- Jon Gambrell
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Hamas’ defeat, helping Ukraine win, best for West
The sooner Israel defeats Hamas, the better. And also the sooner the US focuses attention on helping Ukraine win the war, the better.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Iran
Raisi’s death deals blow to Iranian regime’s grand plan
Raisi was integral to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s plans to cement the influence of regime hardliners and ensure a smooth succession to the republic’s top post.
- Andrew England
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why wily Netanyahu will escape new crisis
Two members of Israel’s war cabinet have warned the prime minister to change course on the war in Gaza, but he is unlikely to flinch.
- Ethan Bronner and Galit Altstein
‘Executioner’: Iran’s president with a vice-like grip on power
Ebrahim Raisi has been seen as a possible successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the highest political and religious position in the Islamic republic.
- Updated
- Dominic Evans
Helicopter crash could send shockwaves across Middle East
Iran has spent decades supporting armed groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian territories.
- Joseph Krauss
This Month
Gantz tells Netanyahu: come up with a war plan in three weeks
A popular centrist member of Israel’s three-member war cabinet threatens to resign if the government doesn’t adopt a new plan in three weeks for war in Gaza.
- Updated
- Wafaa Shurafa and Joe Krauss
Israel recovers bodies of hostages amid fierce fighting in northern Gaza
The Israeli military says it has retrieved the bodies of three Israeli hostages from Gaza including Shani Louk, the 23-year-old German Israeli, who was pronounced dead last year.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi and Nataliya Vasilyeva
The red line on Gaza: PM draws it, students ignore it
Tensions have come to a head after Australia voted “yes” in a United Nations vote to support a Palestinian bid to become a full member.
- Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What a ‘free Palestine’ means in practice
The campus protesters are not the first generation of Western activists who have championed movements that promised liberation in theory and misery and murder in practice.
- Bret Stephens
PM tells Vic Labor to sort out Gaza split
Labor factional powerbrokers were ordered to an emergency meeting to make sure a split on the Palestinian-Israel issue +does not erupt at the Victorian Labor conference.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
Hamas regroups and Israel’s Gaza endgame is missing
US and Israeli officials are offering blunt assessments about Hamas’ resilience and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to plan for post-war Gaza.
- Loveday Morris, Shira Rubin and Hazem Balousha
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel cannot stand alone and Netanyahu knows it
The American decision to restrict arms sales could be a turning point in the US-Israel relationship.
- Gideon Rachman
Fighting flares anew across Gaza as Hamas regroups
Close-quarters ground combat between Hamas fighters and Israeli troops raged in parts of northern Gaza over the weekend as people continued to flee Rafah.
- Liam Stack, Aaron Boxerman and Eric Nagourney
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why the campus protests are so troubling
Hamas is against the existence of a Jewish state and believes there should be an Islamic state between the river and the sea. When protests on college campuses ignore that, they are part of the problem.
- Thomas Friedman
The history of the two-state solution (in six maps)
The world is still searching for a path to peaceful co-existence by Israelis and Palestinians.
- Updated
- Emma Connors and Hans van Leeuwen
Halting the bombs: Biden’s gamble to rein in Netanyahu
The US president paused a weapons shipment to Israel, piling pressure on Israel’s leader to change course. Will it work?
- James Politi, Felicia Schwartz and Mehul Srivastava
